Smallwood v. State

1. The defendant, N. A. Smallwood, was simultaneously tried in the City Court of Gwinnett County on two accusations charging him with possessing non-tax-paid liquors and selling non-tax-paid liquors. Verdicts of guilty were returned. The defendant’s motions for new trial as amended were- denied, and since the same assignments of error are made in each case, they are here considered together’.

The assignments of error in the first three amended grounds of the motions for new trial complain that the defendant’s right to a thorough and sifting cross-examination was abridged by the trial court’s…